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Kiss Me
Many years ago when pigs climbed chimneys and chased cats up into the trees, away back, so they say, there was a lumber king who lived in a river city with many wildcats in the timbers near by.
And the lumber king said, "I am losing my hair and my teeth and I am tired of many things; my only joy is a daughter who is a dancing shaft of light on the ax handles of morning."
She was quick and wild, the lumber king's daughter. She had never kissed. Not her mother nor father nor any sweetheart ever had
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